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New Delhi, Feb 23: Visiting Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the two sides held a high-level discussion to boost trade and bilateral ties. The two sides held extensive talks, exploring ways to boost ties in several key areas, including trade and energy. India and Canada also inked six pacts including, including one on energy cooperation

Washington Feb 23: The Trump administration has announced a new policy that makes very tough the procedure of issuing H-1B visas to those to be employed at one or more third-party worksites, a move that will hugely impact Indian IT companies and their employees. Under the new policy, the company would have to go an extra length to prove that its H-1B employee at a third-party worksite has specific

New Delhi, Feb 23: The ED today said it has frozen bank deposits and shares worth about Rs 44 crore of the Nirav Modi group and seized a huge collection of imported watches from locations linked to the billionaire diamantaire. Officials said they have put freeze orders on bank accounts containing Rs 30 crore and shares worth Rs 13.86 crore of the group under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act

New Delhi, Feb 23: Delhi's ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday alleged that the Delhi Police pressured Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's adviser VK Jain to change his statement about the alleged attack on Chief Secretary Anshu Prakash by the party's MLAs. According to news agency, senior AAP leaders Ashutosh and Sanjay Singh had claimed that this was a ploy to destabilise Kejriwal government in

New Delhi, Feb 22: The CBI today claimed to have busted an international child abuse pornography racket operating on a WhatsApp group and arrested its alleged administrator -- an unemployed youth from Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh. After registering a case of alleged violation of Information Technology Act, the CBI carried out searches at five locations in Delhi, Mumbai and Noida and Kannauj in Uttar

Allahabad, Feb 22: The Allahabad High Court on Thursday rejected a petition seeking a re-investigation of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's alleged role in the 2007 riots in Gorakhpur. Petitioners had requested an independent Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into his alleged role in the Gorakhpur riots. Adityanath was the Lok Sabha MP from Gorakhpur at the time. A bench of

Washington, Feb 22: America's bilateral trade deficit with four major countries, including India, narrowed in the first three quarters of 2017 as compared to the previous year, the US administration said in a report according to which India's growth has slowed due to the effects of its structural economic reforms. The Economic Report of the President (ERP) that shows a path for continued growth

Madurai, Feb 22: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal appealed to the people of Tamil Nadu to vote for the new party of Kamal Haasan and throw out the allegedly "corrupt," AIADMK and DMK. "I can see the people of Tamil Nadu are ready to throw out DMK and AIADMK and bring Kamal Haasan to power," he said. In his brief address in English which was translated into Tamil, Kejriwal said, "if you want

New Delhi, Feb 22: A convicted Khalistani terrorist Jaspal Atwal, who was active in the banned International Sikh Youth Federation, posed with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s wife Sophie Trudeau at an event in Mumbai on February 20, during the Canadian first family's visit to India. Jaspal was also invited for a formal dinner with the Canadian Prime Minister, hosted by the Canadian High

New Delhi, Feb 22: Scripting history, flying officer Avani Chaturvedi has become the first Indian woman to fly a fighter aircraft, an IAF official said."Chaturvedi became the first Indian woman to fly a fighter aircraft solo when she flew a MiG-21 bison in her first solo flight," the official. She undertook the sortie from IAF's Jamnagar base on Monday, he said.Three women pilots, Chaturvedi